[Gllug] Hardware v. Software CODECS?

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:44:32PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, even then, it's pushing it to decode and display that size
> > stream without hardware.
> 
> Didn't realise DVB streams were that huge.

My favourite half-hour BBC3 show takes up a GB of hard disk space.  And
other channels, like BBC1, are encoded at even higher bit-rates.

> Yes, a dxr3 might be worth owning.  They're pretty reasonably priced --
> 30-40 squid from memory -- and their output quality is SUPERB.

I got one a few months back for about half that IIRC, but I still haven't
managed to get it working yet.  I'll get around to it one day although I
suspect it may be broken, but then I usually netcat the stream to another
computer and software-decode it anyway.

Pete
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